Yasukuni-jinja Chiyoda

... rain in doing so, so it wasn't until 1 that I arrived, soggily, at my intended destination. Yasukuni Jinja is the shrine for the war heroes of Japan. This is a reasonably controversial sight, with 10s of international war criminals honoured here, and a ...

... 12524;ーライス (karee raisu - curry rice) um 450 yen gegessen hab. Mit vollem Bauch hab ich mich also zum Yasukuni Jinja aufgemacht. Die Fotos gibt's unten. Ich wollte auch in das Museum, war aber erst um kurz vor halb fünf dort, ...

... read said the first 6000 were free and the opening ceremony was at 9. Armed with that information we headed down there for 9. Yasukuni-Jinja was the location, which was a shrine with attached sumo ground. The information on the website about what stop to ...

... some, before making our way through Marunouchi and the Imperial Palace grounds and outer garden to the city's most infamous shrine. Yasukuni-jinja has been all over the news in recent years. This is the place that Koizumi always visits around New ...

... makes me feel doubly bad for scratching it up against the wall socket...). He lives right by the Imperial Park and the Yasukuni Jinja, the shrine that always raises a stink with Korea and China whenever the PM visits since the veterans buried there are ...

... . The emperor lives there and it is difficult to really see any of the actual building. Next we too the metro to the Yasukuni Jinja, a shrine to those who have died in the wars. There were monks and everything! The security guard got pissed at me ...

... buildings of the National Museum of Modern Art and the Budokan (martial arts centre). We then visited the controversial Yasukuni-jinja which commemorates and enshrines the war dead, including some Class A war criminals. It wasn't actually that ...